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Shanah Tovah Letter from Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam of Bobov – With Addition in His Handwriting: "Blessing Them with Salvation and Gmar Chatimah Tovah"
Letter of Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam (the second) of Bobov. Brooklyn, New York, third day of repentance [Tishrei], 1981.
Scribal writing, with added blessing handwritten and signed by the Rebbe: "Blessing them with salvation and Gmar Chatimah Tovah, Shlomo Halberstam".
Sent to "my friend… Meir Feldman". The Rebbe writes that he received his kvittel and pidyon and blesses him with life, peace, health, success, heavenly assistance and satisfaction and ease in his descendants' upbringing.
Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam (the second) of Bobov (1907-2000), the Divrei Shlomo, prominent rebbe in recent times. Son of Rebbe Bentzion Halberstam, the Kedushat Tzion (son of the first Rebbe of Bobov, Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam, grandson of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz). In 1931, his father moved from Bobov to Trzebinia, and appointed him as rabbi in his place in Bobov.
Rebbe Shlomo assisted his father in directing the dozens of branches of the large network of yeshivas "Etz Chaim – Bobov" in Galicia. After the Holocaust, he reached the United States where he re-established the Bobov Chassidut, founding communities, yeshivas and Torah institutions in the United States and worldwide.
[1] leaf, official stationery. 26.5 cm. Good condition. Dampstain and folding marks.
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